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Man and His Symbols
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies buried in dreams, myths, and the symbols we scarcely notice? Man and His Symbols is an evocative journey into the deep architecture of the human psyche, where the unconscious speaks in images older than memory. Through rich illustrations and profound insights, the book unveils how symbols shape our fears, desires, and destinies—often without our awareness. Can we truly become whole without listening to what the soul whispers in symbols? This is not merely a study of the mind, but an invitation to explore the unseen terrain of meaning within us all.
- Originally Published: 1964
- Publisher : Penguin Random House, 1968
- Genre: Psychology
- Pages: 415
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0440351832
- Access: Members
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Man’s Search for Meaning
In the heart of unspeakable darkness, one man dared to ask not how to escape suffering—but how to endure it with dignity. Man’s Search for Meaning is both a harrowing memoir and a luminous meditation, tracing the inner life of a soul caught in the grip of history’s cruelest machinery. Amid despair, it whispers a radical truth: that even in the absence of freedom, we can choose our response, and that choice can shape a life. What if the key to survival is not power or luck, but purpose? This is a book that doesn’t offer comfort—it offers meaning.
- Originally Published: 1946
- Publisher: Rider, 2004
- Genre: Personal Narrative
- Pages: 160
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781844132393
- Access: Members
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Night
In the frozen silence of the camps, where humanity is stripped to its barest bones, one boy clings to life, to faith, to his father’s hand. Night is a haunting testimony of survival in a world where reason has fled and cruelty reigns, a journey through darkness that asks: what remains of the self when even God is silent? With stark, lyrical power, it lays bare the fragile thread between love and despair, memory and forgetting. Can the soul endure when the world forgets how to care? This is not just a memoir—it is a cry, a flame, a witness.
- Originally Published: 1956
- Publisher: Hill & Wang, 2006
- Genre: Memoir, Autobiography, Non-fiction novel
- Pages: 120
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0374500016
- Access: Members
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
In a world where our choices are never as free as they seem, Nudge reveals the hidden levers that shape how we decide—from what we eat to how we save, vote, or plan our futures. Through the lens of behavioral science, it explores how small, well-placed cues—nudges—can guide us toward wiser, healthier, and more ethical outcomes without taking away our agency. But can gentle guidance coexist with true freedom, or does every choice architecture carry the fingerprints of power? With clarity and warmth, this book challenges us to see decision-making not as a cold calculation, but as a deeply human dance between impulse, intention, and design. It is a quiet manifesto for a smarter society—one choice at a time.
- Originally Published: 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 384
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141999937
- Access: Members
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a tempest of faith, passion, and blood—where three brothers, torn by guilt, desire, and spiritual hunger, are drawn into a patricide that becomes a mirror for their own souls. Beneath the mystery of their father’s violent death lies a deeper trial: of God, of free will, and of the human heart’s capacity for both light and depravity. Can love redeem the chaos we inherit, or is every soul bound to wrestle alone with the divine and the absurd? Lyrical and relentless, this epic unearths the moral labyrinth at the core of every family—and every man. A novel as intimate as a confession and as vast as a cathedral.
- Originally Published: November 1880
- Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2003
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 1056
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0679410034
- Access: Prime Membership
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The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence
The Small Big reveals a quiet truth with seismic implications: the most powerful changes often come from the subtlest shifts. In a world obsessed with grand gestures and sweeping overhauls, this book uncovers the hidden science behind small tweaks that lead to massive influence—how a single word, a tiny cue, or a modest gesture can tilt decisions, shape behavior, and move hearts. With clarity and curiosity, it explores the paradox of persuasion: that less can truly be more. Can the key to transforming the world lie not in revolution, but in the smallest pivot of perception? This is a playbook for those who understand that the finest levers move the heaviest loads.
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd., 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 302
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1781252758
- Access: Members